Libér

Libér (Brillian: Akerau, French: Libérie, German: Libritz, South Scavian: Agāra, Traditional English: Libury) is the capital of the Lussantian province of Liberakia.

An originally Scavianic city with a millenary history, successively capital of the Agaric Khanate and Librian Empire, it was repeatedly fought over throughout history, being taken over by the Lussantian Empire in 1637. Under Empress Christine II's rule, the city thrived economically and culturally, becoming a stronghold of the Lussantian crown in the southern steppes, well-protected from southern Brillian warlords. In 1862 however, after the humiliating defeat of Lussantia in the Urtistan War, the winning powers, Respublika, Urtistan and Greenforest, founded the buffer state of Brilliania after the signature of the Treaty of Kellavärk. During that war, a coalition of Brillian warlords succesfully took over the city, taking advantage of the lack of Lussantian troops, which deserted the region to fight on the Urtistani front. Libér was renamed Akerau, the Brillian exonym for the city, and selected as the capital of the new country.

Politics of Brillianisation of the Akerau region were led, and the remaining Czech-speaking communities fled back to Lussantia. In the mid-20th century, the Brillian government launched a massive urban planning program, to facilitate the industrialisation of the city which was still underdeveloped. This program, also fueled by rmapant anti-Lussantianism at the time, consisted in demolishing most neighbourhoods dating from the Scavianic and Lussantian periods, and reconstruct them in a more modern way, using elements from traditional Brillian architecture.

The city suffered heavy damage from the Brillian Civil War from 2017 to 2018, but remained the capital of the country after the takeover of the neo-fascist government in September of 2018. On December 12 of the same year, in reaction to the ever-worsening situation of human and minority rights in Brilliania and neighbouring Joeriakia, as well as the spilling of fascist paramilitias on its territory, Lussantia decided, after a tense vote in Parliament, to take military action to force the rogue governments to quit power, starting the Three Weeks War. The metropolitan area was once again heavily damaged, with entire neighbourhoods being partially or completely in ruins. Lussantian forces would officially take Libér on December 29, capturing Brillian leader Xuqerian Qausiranai and deposing the fascist government the same day. The Treaty of Orlin, signed on 21 March 2019 between Lussantia, the defeated officials of Brilliania and Joeriakia, and international observers, eventually stated that the two countries would be completely incorporated into Lussantian territory on 26 October of the same year. The city was officially renamed Libér.